Accession No
1928.202.1
Description
Sherd incorporating an everted simple rim, made up of a fine grey fabric with burnished brown exterior and black interior. Decoration on the exterior of a band incised thin vertical lines and punched dots with pale infill.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Early Bronze Age Earliest Hatvan
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.202.1; TS267 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd of a vessel, fine walled, burnished Dark greyish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.4/2). Decoration: scratched zone under burnishing then dots with white infill
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS267.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (References)
Childe, V. Gordon. (1927). ‘A Bronze Age Village in Hungary: A Thousand Years of Prehistory’. The Illustrated London News, 24 September 1927, p. 498.
Event Date 1927
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Context (Field collection)
Stratum IX. Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1927. See archive (LL1/4/1 – LL1/4/3) for correspondence, notes, drawings, etc.
Event Date 1927
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for 1928.202[.1-10]: 'Pottery fragments'
Event Date 1928
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Context (References)
Schalk, Emily. (1981). ‘Die Frühbronzezeitliche Tellsiedlung bei Tószeg, Ostungarn, mit Fundmaterial aus der sammlung Groningen (Niederlande) und Cambridge (Grossbritannien)’. Dacia, vol. 25. pp. 63–129.
Event Date 1981
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Context (References)
Leighton, Mary and Stig Sorensen, Marie Louise. (2004). 'Breathing Life into the Archives: Reflections Upon Decontextualization and the Curatorial History of V.G. Childe and the Material from Toszeg'. European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 7. pp. 41-60.
Event Date 2004
Author: Alana Edgeworth
Description (Physical description)
Sherd incorporating an everted simple rim, made up of a fine grey fabric with burnished brown exterior and black interior. Decoration on the exterior of a band incised thin vertical lines and punched dots with pale infill.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:50519
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